Jake’s Takes: Travis’ Views Edition (Premium E300)
A very special episode where we explore Travis’ views on Jake’s takes. With Julian waylaid by the flu, Jake has cooked up a ‘tasting menu’ featuring his current doomscrolling obsessions, to serve to Travis. With no producer at the helm, Jake discusses Ghostbusters fan films, Airsoft, and tells one or two stories for the second or third time on the podcast. Travis also has views on the two hundred million dollar ‘ballroom’ planned for the White House.
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You boys are the best.
More please sirs.
Those rappers were good! Someone be my friend. I’m white!
Side sleeper gang
On the topic of presidential opulence; I blame Reagan and the prosperity gospel. The PG basically rehashes the old puritan notion that wealth is a sign of god's favor, which in turn is just a rehash of the ancient greek idea of kalos kai agathoi. And Reagan, well, he and his acolytes transmuted the new deal principle of social meritocracy (ie, it is the responsibility of society to help all people survive and thrive, regardless of background) into the neoliberal principle of individualist meritocracy (ie, it is the responsibility of the individual to ensure that anyone can survive and thrive, regardless of background). These two phenomena together, have created the situation where it is possible for "anti-elite" MAGA americans to support a fancyboy elite like Trump regardless of what he does. He is wealthy, and powerful, therefore he must be right(eous). He is right(eous) therefore he has wealth and power. A perfect cycle of thought termination.
More Ghostbusters fanfilm reviews, please! 🤣
compositing mentioned
Without Julian this really came off as 2 neurodivergent friends having a nice time infodumping on each other.
Thank you for all the great episodes and for never having any ads!
the 3d things reminds me of the thing they used to make the action figures in small soldiers lol
There are all the obvious road bumps you brought up for facial age estimation software, those pretty much all check out with reality. But more than that, whatever level of sophistication Travis imagined you'd need to fool the system is probably a severe overestimation. After Discord launched their compliance module (which they outsourced to "k-id", another one of those companies that specialize exclusively in just this kind of tech), it took less than 24 hours for videos to pop up of people filming their computer screen with Garry's Mod running. They'd spawn in Dr. Breen from Half-Life 2 and then respond to prompts like "open your mouth" by faceposing him in grotesque ways where the textures stretch unnaturally. To these image recognition models that all looks close enough to human that it's accepted and gets you verified as an adult. Again, this 2004 video game character fed through a sandbox modding tool that lets you stretch it like a rubber band far past what it was designed to accommodate. The only way they can prevent people from tricking the system with measures that extreme is tightenign up the parameters for what's accepted as a human, which risks causing too many false negatives to be worth it or even making it start heavily discriminating against people with certain features. And there's no way to know for sure how a tweak will affect it until it's out in the wild and at risk of causing a PR scandal, so it's against these companies' interests to fuck around with those settings too much. Facial age verification is absolute horseshit and that Ofcom's guidelines list it as a robust and recommended method is probably the best proof you could ask for that they're guessing wildly in an area where they know little and aren't interested in learning.
Why is there not a SC QAA org
William Atherton was so good at playing at assholes, the worst of them being the awful Jerry from my favorite Val Kilmer movie, Real Genius.
How can you bring up Wing Commander and its cast of actors without mentioning former porn star Ginger Lynn who had a big role?
The age verification stuff is wild. Strangers were still mistaking me for a high schooler until my early 30s. Now I’m mistaken for a college student.
Now they want to pay for a movie!
Anyway, great episode again,folks! Jake as lovely as ever and wonderful to hear loads more from Travis. Still missing you though, Julian. Get well soon and hope you recover from that ass-whipping! Enjoy it while you can though as that kink costs some serious dollar in some places ! 😜
Interesting analysis of Ghostbusters there . Similar themes in many other Reagan -era movies. Not so subtle conservative propaganda in the endgame of the Cold War , I suppose. If it wasn't the over- promotion of the "American Dream" then it was the admiration for the maverick and rule - breaker. What were they actually rebelling against? Similar characters can be found in Ayn Rand's ramblings .Notably Dagny Taggart and her battle against state bureaucracy over her damn railroad!
HOT TAKE: congrats on 300! This episode made me smile, which is unusual for a podcast that talks about current events lately. A mazel to you all, but especially our sweet Jake.
someone should re-skin Ghostbusters to Mypillow the mike lindell story. complete with theme song and the world saving cosmic importance of a comfy pillow.
This is a billion dollar idea that would also win the Nobel Peace Prize
This episode was dying to be on video.
Ngl Julian has been a bit annoying recently talking over travis. This episode rocked.
I CBA to join Discord so just drop this story here: https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners People in Oregon get wildfire maps taken down because it's a plot by the UN to force them into cities. Wild. Fire.
so you're saying David Blaine gives us suspension of disbelief, and Criss Angel just gives us...suspension
trake’s takes
If you want some gear to go to milsim west airsoft lmk
Ari at home mentioned! He is so great. He's a good rapper himself too
I've always wondered how those self-report age verification things are supposed to work. Any self respecting middle schooler knows to put in the correct year to get past it.
My first thought on the 3d figurine was porn, which is probably the actual worst use, sex dolls printed with stolen faces. Or just OF people selling said dolls of themselves, which is less creepy as it is consensual but still creepy.
David Cornsweat is so fucking funny travis great pull
TEAM FORTRESS 2 MENTION ON QAA LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Even in sickness Julian remains mad. Rest up king. Great ep
I would love Jake’s Take on “Kendra Falls in love with psychiatrist”. That is primo TikTok melted and feels like a pinless grenade
liv's gives
Great to hear Ari@Home! But if you want to hear brain melting free style rapping check out Harry Mack on YouTube!
I love this. Its like theyre on a first date. "what are your views on freestyle rap" lmaooo love you jake
I am not listening to this until at least three people who have listened to 100% of the audio assure me that jake doesn’t play a single second of fucking John Mayer …
Freestyle rapping, and doing it WELL, ESPECIALLY to a song you've never heard before, seems harder to me than almost anything I could imagine. There are lots of things that I believe (perhaps erroneously) that I could do alright if I just had a little bit of time to practice but not that. No no.
Love it. Great show. Where is liv?
Liv Agar. I think she's working on their Science In Transition series? I miss her too but maybe she doesn't have the time.
🤘🏻🫶🏻
Why do people make ghost busters fan films? A: bustin’ makes them feel good.
If Jake enjoys the Star Citizen content, he should absolutely check out Frost on YouTube, he's a Rust creator who creates some genuinely cinematic stuff
Wing Commander! Good stuff, you guys always bring the nostalgia.
That’s right! 9 1/2 Joaquin weens I knew you’d come around
Also alarming about Yoti: what dataset did they train their AI on? Where did they get all the faces and ages? Who gave/sold it to them?
Jake the Navy Pier paintball place has such a history in the Navy that, when open, anyone who went to Great Lakes for A-School would be brought there by the older students for basically a consensual ritual hazing. So congrats on your valor
This episode has the energy of a younger brother showing his older brother stuff he thinks is cool and I'm here for that
Hell yeah love the fun eps
There were a lot of Star Trek and Harry Potter fan films made back in the day. I didn't know about the Ghostbusters films.
My thoughts exactly. Also Star Wars must be off the hook.
Travis be like: "As a matter of fact 🤓"
I work for a popular fetish social site and they use the age estimation thing. It’s sometimes wildly off. I’ve seen it tag a baby and it was a bald guy
I was wondering how long it would take for Jake to realize Ghostbusters is a conservative film
Apparently, a lot of people with facial differences like scarring, tattoos, or congenital birth defects etc are having issues with the facial recognition software. Like, it's not recognizing their face as a face. Another win for technology-driven ableism, I guess.
It’s like they went “hey, let’s heighten our culture’s present and historical bigotries!”
Edward Norton, Fight Club voice: “I am Jake’s creamed monstrosity.”
"very demure, very mindful" is out; "very disrespectful, very funny" is in
My beautiful boys!
Jake Takes is just him cornering you of a room and showing you all his recent likes on tiktok. I love it.
Former Starbucks barista: to make the cream monstrosity at home the recipe is 250 mL heavy cream, 88 mL vanilla syrup (can just be a simple syrup you make), and 126 mL 2% milk and then you just whisk it together and that’s the vanilla sweet cream
The deep dish better bless you and keep you for this one 🙏🍕
Great ep! We love our mountain man, Travis!
Kinda surprised Jake and Travis have never heard of the 3D figure modeling thing since it’s documented that Epstein had a chess board made of 3D models of his victims. https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/the-creepy-dcor-in-jeffrey-epsteins-nyc-house.html
When I was interested in paintball a long long time ago, one funny aspect was that you could go to an online paintball forum and piss everyone off *instantly* by suggesting that there should be a "paintball knife." Apparently ~12 year olds wandering into serious communities and complaining there was no "paintball knife" was a regularly occurring trope, because I swear some places had a one-strike policy for this behavior where they would ban the person immediately
I’ve totally overthought the whole EPA asshole being a villain in Ghostbusters thing. And yes, very clearly Reagan-era pull-yourselves-up-by-your-bootstraps, small business go-getters ideology (side note they totally don’t pay Janine for all her overtime). BUT now I’m a jaded bureaucrat myself . I’m like, EPA guy is totally wrong, just a suit coming in without a court order demanding to see the GB rig, not listening or trying to understand risk, and he’s definitely not giving off environmentalist vibes - total pencil-head. He also tells the cop he can shoot the GBs if they want 😂 If he were my boss, I’d call him dick-less too
There’s a cut scene where the mayor’s assistant takes Ray aside to fill in some vendor application forms. I mean, it’s win-win procurement policy. A lucrative government contract for a local business, and responsive service provision without recruitment, training, and infrastructure overheads for the City. Don’t worry, I already know I’m going to pay for my sins in the public servant circle of Hell for my crimes against socialism.
Joan Didion had a great essay about politicians and gilded houses. She talked about how Reagan built a huge governor's mansion in California, but by the time it was finished, he wasn't governor anymore. And then Jerry Brown made a point of not living in the mansion as part of his political appeal, so the house just sat there occupying a huge tract of land and screwing up the environment.
Fuck it, I hope you see real magic one day Jake! Wonder deserves to be rewarded!
Weird coincidence: I'm a lifelong magician listening to this in my hotel room at a huge magic convention in Las Vegas. Travis's Views on magic and perception very accurately encapsulate my lifelong fascination with artifice, perception, and belief: as entertainment it can be whimsical at best and cheesy at worst, but as social manipulation it can be terrifying and deadly.
I am once again begging for a Eurovision episode 🙏🏻
loved the ep. the best thing with the UK age verification thing i've seen is at least two different people using specifically the game Death Stranding to get past it since you can get the character in that game to open his mouth in photo mode.
Very accurate Airsoft training for the Marines shooting children and all
Is Adam Friedland really an Ari Aster fan or is he just in it for the dicks?
Kick ass ep and definitely an all timer
lmao MelBORN
Hears to Jake making Travis genuinely laugh. Haven't listened yet
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Never imagined QAA and AriAtHome worlds would collide. Love the magic Ari brings to the streets!
Not listened yet. Just effing love that QAA exists. Lest we forget, most of all right now, why QAA is a thing. Oppose and argue but also despair and love and fight and hope.
Travis spoke more in this episode than in the last 10 combined 😂 But I really enjoyed this one. Jake and Travis have such a great dynamic.
Wing Commander expert here. The first few Wing Commander games didn’t use FMV. It was only 3 and on. Also you don’t really walk around the ship as much as click for cut scenes. The flight sim side was always great. There was always a divide between the Wing Commander fans and the X-Wing/Tie Fighter fans.
I was thinking the same thing (THat was Wing Commander THREE, Jake!). Wing Commander 2 was an epoch. Although I did like X-Wing/Tie Fighter too -- especially Tie Fighter.
In fairness, Knowledge Fight does still acknowledge Patreon subscribers. But they just read three per episode, not the whole list.
You're a policy wonk.
I can't believe you've never met Annie or Liv!!
The girls do be living in different countries.
"Travis' Views" edition... hey it doesn't rhy-- oh.
This is golden content
Genuinely cannot tell y'all enough how much I look forward to Jake's Takes.
Can’t wait to see the righteous fury in the comments at Julian’s call for some reason
😮 Jake's Takes!
Travis got to kick a freestyle next time
AI Janeane Garofalo RULES!
I've been listening since that first BtB crossover about Bill Mitchell; I think I hadn't laughed that hard in literal years. I joined premium for, specifically for, episode 77, the Book of Eli movie night. Julian was missed, but otherwise this was perfect and I loved it. Thank you, again, still, continually, for making this insane shit that resonates with me so much.
Liv agar
I'm so fucking proud of you, Jake.
Travis just made me go rewatch the Jake The Sniper Team Fortress video I used to obsess over lmao
FUCK YEAH
*fingers crossed* y'all don't make a cringe pitch for your media company when y'all are pulling nearly $90K per month on Patreon.
They are creating an offshoot network so their buddies can launch their own shows, what’s wrong with that?
The Knowledge Fight guys only shout out those who send them a message specifically.
When do we hear Julian's? What should we call them?
Julian's Feeld Notes?
Want to buy liv's gives
The flu you say
YES
This is gonna be a good one
Love you guys!
This is exactly what I needed tonight 🥹 thank you guys
Yesssss hugs y'all, enjoy your evenings.
Agar Livs!
When I say I literally dropped what I was doing to listen to this I am not exaggerating